In 2003, the Society of Actuaries, a respected professional body, devoted most of its annual meeting to what was called "the Great Controversy" — the notion that the actuarial standards for pensions were fundamentally flawed, causing systemic underfunding and setting up a slow-moving train wreck when baby boomers retired.
But unfortunately, there have been far too many cases where the quantitative analysis of those numbers has been flawed, causing doubt about the authors' interpretation and uncertainty about the result.
As the conversation progresses, Ravel explains that, in a past life, The Nameless One had asked her to make him immortal; however, the ritual she performed was flawed, causing him to lose his memory each time he died.
The case against him was sufficiently flawed to cause the FBI, known for its hawkish approach to counterterrorism, to stay out of the case.
The availability of a structural model of IFs is also the key to understand the mechanisms of IF related genetic diseases, where structural flaws cause major structural changes of biologically relevant properties.
This flawed hemoglobin causes red cells to stiffen and to take on jagged shapes, which blocks blood vessels and causes vascular inflammation leading to damaged organs.
What was clear by the OSHA findings is that the way this revised construction plan was executed was flawed, essentially causing the collapse.
Researchers have long known that a single flawed gene causes sickle cell disease, in which red blood cells take on a sicklelike shape that inefficiently delivers oxygen.
For their part, American investigators have focused mainly on whether a mechanical flaw caused the crash.
A design flaw causes the apartment to flood when it rains.
